Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bilingual Ladies. By the time UNO's delegates arrived, the college cafeteria was ready to feed the men of all nations at a reasonable price (lunch: 50?). A Miss de Vienne Blanc had recruited a secretarial staff, and had enthusiastically announced that many of the girls were bilingual and all of good moral character. Said she, proudly: "We have no tramps here." A caterer named Lee Harding had spent four days & nights seeking a bartender capable of a high, international type of work, had found a man he hoarsely described as "one of the greatest bar characters...
...article "God's Corner Lot" [TIME, March 4], why not change the location of the church as suggested [from Manhattan's Fifth Avenue at 48th to the East Seventies], spend $1,000,000 of the profit for a new edifice, and $2,000,000 to feed and clothe Europe's starving, freezing children...
...worldwide food shortage also affected the animal market. In some places, monkeys were being eaten instead of exported. Large animals could not be kept in captivity, awaiting U.S. dealers, or shipped, because there was not enough food to feed them. Only pythons (worth $5 to $10 a foot in the U.S.) were relatively unaffected. They are often caught after they have stolen and gorged a whole sheep or goat. The lucky dealer could ship a python to the U.S. and sell it without ever having to feed...
...first song, I Want to Take Care of Mother. By 11:45, when he went on the air for a broadcast, he had written 18, including Nuts to California ("You talk about your grapefruit, so full, so round, so big; they're the kind in Texas, that we feed to the pig."). Dave stopped only to take sandwiches and coffee. At 7:45 p.m.-15 minutes before the deadline-Dave finished his 52nd song. He called it It's Never Too Late to Forgive...
...funeral." But all the ministers said sorry, it was the Easter rush; they had no time. Gladys began to wonder what God really was. She saw a stained-glass window that said: Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Sylvester Horace Rogers . . . GOD IS LOVE. Another inscription said: FEED MY SHEEP. The minister, an advanced thinker, said this meant that "people should have a living wage and good housing conditions." When Gladys asked him if, by praying, she could prevent her G.I. boy friend from being killed, the minister muttered: "Just trust God. All is well," and hurried away. Soon after...